There are indeed dangers in Mr Willes's plan (would you write a hard-hitting story on Hollywood, if your department head was wooing a big studio chief?).
That growth got a big assist from Chief Executive Leonard Fluxman's push into products, training and resorts.
While Lilliputian hasn't announced an agreement with a big manufacturer, Chief Executive Kenneth Lazarus says he's talking to most of them.
Inside a nearby craft tent, another Big Chief, Tyrone Casby, sewed beads on a new suit.
But she points out that there is still not a single female president, chairman or chief executive of a big Wall Street firm.
The BBC spent a day with the Big Chief, while he gets ready for the big day.
My miss, and it's a big one, goes to Chief Justice John Roberts for his ruling that the Affordable Care Act is constitutional.
At the same time Priory was looking for a partner in the gas business, Paul Anderson , chief executive of Panenergy, a big Houston gas pipeline company once known as Panhandle Eastern, was looking for a utility.
Of the 11 research analysts following Ivanhoe Mines, 9 rate the stock a "buy" or "speculative buy, " according to Bloomberg, a surprising endorsement for a stock trading at 27 times revenue and whose chief potential payoff--a speculative big strike in Mongolia--is years away.
"We're off to a very big start, " says Chief Financial Officer Kenneth Martin .
He was the only chief executive from a big bulge-bracket financial firm to be in the audience.
Over the last decade, no chief executive of a big pharmaceutical company performed as well as Daniel Vasella of Novartis.
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But having a successful predecessor sitting on the board (and, as is often the case with second-act chief executives, a big shareholder to boot) cannot have made life easy for David Pottruck, who had taken over from Mr Schwab in 2003.
But they're probably right that the field of available candidates is tiny, not least because - since the great crash of 2007-8 - the Financial Services Authority has set the bar much higher in respect of the qualifications and experience required of a chief executive of a big international bank (the FSA's approval is required for any senior bank appointment).
The accident came shortly before a visit by Barry McCaffrey, America's anti-narcotics chief, who has called for a big increase in American military aid to Colombia.
" The site produces a steady stream of personal and professional status updates such as "Joe Smith closed a big sale in China" or "Maggie Jones just hired a new chief of marketing.
The chief complaint is that a big dollop of Olympic money is coming from the national lottery's charitable fund.
This is expected to involve a significant retreat from North America, where the bank acquired a big presence when Sir Fred Goodwin was chief executive.
So far he's assembled a team of designers and promises to name a current Big Three group vice president as chief executive early next year.
And this wasn't just a perk enjoyed by chief executives of big, publicly traded companies, who increasingly have demanded personal use of company jets as part of their compensation packages.
Yukos pointed out that a ruling in the Netherlands last year already gave the syndicate a claim on the cash due from the sale of the company's overseas assets (chief among them being a big stake in a Lithuanian refinery).
For a big chunk of time that Bitar was chief executive of a financially thriving Full Tilt, both he and the company were headquartered in Ireland, but since its primary market was in America, Bitar was playing a high-stakes game.
But it's a big cost-saver for Wasun Chantratita, chief of virology and molecular microbiology at Mahidol University in Bangkok.
Cisco Systems Chief Executive John Chambers is a big Republican donor.
"People have been allowed to have a business outside their academic appointment, and I think that has been outstanding for the U.S.--a big advantage over Europe, " says Novartis Chief Executive Dr. Daniel Vasella .
Entrepreneurs bullied by big investors have a hero in Brad Harlow, chief executive of Physiosonics, in Bellevue, Wash.
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Ms. ELAINE LUDWIG (Chief Clerk, Lebanon County) A big gripe of election officials is that we are down in the trenches and that we should have a little input into what kind of systems we think are going to work for us.
Ridge, a 12-year company veteran and chief executive since late 1997, says he's looking to make a big acquisition.
Now the company has become a big player in this new advertising market, but the chief operating officer was keen to reassure users that there were limits.
Minutes later he was back, shrouded by salmon and peach feathers, as Big Chief of the Congo Nation, enacting a Mardi Gras Indian tradition inherited from his father.
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